Tag: historic sites

Went early this morning to Newlin Grist Mill to see if the waterfall was iced up. It was! This is a difficult shot in the a.m. because the waterfall is in deep shade and you have to face the sun directly. This was shot without a hood. ISO 800, 1/8, f/29. Is it a good […]

It started out really sunny! But on the ride to New Castle the weather turned on a dime and became cold, windy and dark. This is one of the most harrowing trips in Delaware. The worst is probably a trip to Christiana Mall but that’s another post. I’ve lived all over the country and Delaware? […]

This Sunday, March 8, is Charter Day for all the PHMC sites. What that means is great programming and free admission! As sad as I am about the PHMC policies in recent years that have led to the relative fiscal abandonment of many Pennsylvania historic sites by the State, I’m happy to see the various […]

June 25-28th, 2015. A flotilla of tall ships will be down at the Philadelphia – Camden waterfront. A shame that the Kalmar Nyckel isn’t going to be there but there will be a 16th century vessel in attendance, El Galeon. I personally can’t wait to see L’Hermione, a replica of the ship that brought Lafayette to North […]

The most people I have seen at Brandywine Battlefield since the PHMC cut the knees out from under ALL the Revolutionary War sites in the State of PA. Of course if you want to visit the Log Museum or the Oil Derrick you are just fine. I’m sure that cutting out the funding for all […]

Intense emotion is stressful, and we look to artists to feel for us, to suffer and rejoice, to describe the heights of their passionate response to life so that we can enjoy them from a safe distance and get to know better what the full range of human experience really is. We may not choose to live out the extremes of consciousness we find...but it's wonderful to peer into them. We look to artists to stop time for us, to break the cycle of birth and death and temporarily put an end to life's processes. It is too much of a whelm for any one person to face up to without going into sensory overload. Artists, on the other hand, court that intensity. We ask artists to fill our lives with a cavalcade of fresh sights and insights, the way life was for us when we were children and everthing was new. ~~ Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses